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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through April 1806.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the names of the two children who survived?
(a) James and Martha
(b) James and Ellen
(c) James and Anna
(d) Martha and John

2. What does Martha charge for each birth?
(a) 6 shillings
(b) 10 shillings
(c) 3 shillings
(d) 12 shillings

3. What profession did some of the ousted female healers choose?
(a) pharmacology
(b) nursing
(c) dressmaking
(d) teaching

4. When did midwives stop attending autopsies?
(a) When the midwife fainted
(b) When the midwife shrieked
(c) When they became more institutionalized
(d) When the midwife vomited

5. When could a man be charged with fornication?
(a) When he was married
(b) When an affair lasted more than six months
(c) When he refused to take responsibility for a child
(d) When his partner was a young girl

Short Answer Questions

1. Which family member's autopsy did Martha attend?

2. Who is Dr. Page?

3. Who is the mother of John Davis Jr.?

4. Who buys the parcel of land next to Jonathan's?

5. In what year does Martha start her diary?

(see the answer key)

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